convergence. Focusing on the late nineteenth century, a period both of globalization and convergence, it shows that trade had an … important impact on factor prices in some countries, just as Heckscher and Ohlin would have predicted. Migration was a more … important force for convergence during this period, however. The analysis suggests that more attention should be paid to open …

of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a … happiness. Together these findings indicate a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income … comparisons in determining happiness. …

-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …

Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours … satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they …

abnormally low levels of life satisfaction. Using data from the World Values Survey and other sources, we study various … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and non … the aged population explain a great deal of the difference in life satisfaction between transition countries and other …

Germany has experienced a substantial influx of German immigrants from Eastern Europe after World War II and expects … German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native born West Germans. Ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Europe … from East Germany. Similar to foreign guest-workers, German immigrants are more likely to work in blue collar jobs; they do …

wage subsidy in Eastern Germany and the elimination of all other subsidies. Subsequent events have strengthened the …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The … the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional convergence is estimated quite precisely and is large, at 3 ….0-5.6 percent per year depending on the estimation horizon. The result is robust to a large number of specification tests, and …

fiscal convergence criteria written into the Treaty of Maastricht and its Protocols. In order to qualify for full membership …